What the hell is the problem with hotels and free internet.
Wireless internet in a hotel should be like having a shitty pool out back, or grainy HBO, or an ice machine that works half the time – the kind of thing that everyone has and it’s not even a big deal anymore. In fact, it shouldn’t even need to be mentioned on the roadside sign, it should just sort of be assumed that whatever dumpy motel or hotel you’re pulling into for the night has it, the same way when I walk in to the room, I expect the plastic #2 seat on the toilet so you can take a dump without teabagging the poo water.
Hell, a lot of REST STOPS seem to have wireless internet now too so you can pull over, buy some chips out of a rusty vending machine, and look up your goat porn all in one go. Plus, they offer this service for FREE.
That’s the big thing that gets me – it’s freaking FREE. Entire cities are gearing up to provide free internet citywide. Forward thinking airports around the world offer it for free. Even Starbucks has dumped their absolutely retarded deal with T-Mobile and is rolling out free internet access. However, with hotels, it’s totally hit or miss, and most annoyingly, the nicer the hotel, the more likely you’re going to have to pay ten bucks to be able to use their wireless internet for a 24-hour period.
This is a graph I threw together illustrating my point:
See, when you’re in the OK hotels, like Best Westerns or Holiday Inn Expresses, you’re riding fine. They do things right, they give you free internet. But then, you hit a threshhold for more expensive “nicer” hotels, and all of a sudden they are justified in charging you up the ass for temporary internet usage. I call this “being in Douchevalley” because dammit you’re already paying like twice as much for the room and really other than a little less crusty starch in the sheets and thicker towels, you’re not getting twice the room quantifiably, and on top of that, now it’s costing you another ten bucks a day just to use the internet.
I say you might as well go huge and get a room at the hotel with complimentary masseuse and aromatherapy soaps and candles included with your room.
Truer words hath ne’er been wraught.
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I think the Douche Valley represents the peak of prices of rooms that will be payed for by businesses.
For example, a company will send their employees to whatever hotel they have on contract, which will be $200 a night and offer no amenities. Nobody except businesses goers will stay at this hotel, ever.
In which case the employee likely has an expense account ready, which the hotel is ready to further screw the employer with.
In Seattle they are stopping Free WiFi at rest stops and Highways. So that needs so consideration. Internet is pretty cheap anyway. so now you get your chips, water and wait, WTF?! now i have to get out my nextel wireless internet card, and no need to go through crappy messages or anything about best western or any of that crap that gos along with it.
Stuck in Douche Valley here in Abuja, Nigeria. The Hilton charge over $250 a night for a room, then charge you $25 for 24 hours internet access. Hell, they also put a bottle of water in the bathroom, so you can brush your teeth with clean water, but the kicker is that there’s a $3 price tag attached to it!
I know that this is Africa, but the one thing they appear to know about in Nigeria is gouging you for every penny, and then gouging some more.
They probably assume you’re getting your millions from a deceased relative.
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